Joseph Garcia is a partner who practises in the areas of corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Joseph advises high growth public and private companies, underwriters, pension funds, private equity groups, and venture capital investors on complex domestic and cross-border private and public securities offerings, mergers & acquisitions, and international commercial transactions. He advises clients in a variety of industries, including life sciences, technology, retail, mining and clean technology. Prior to his career in law, Joseph worked in corporate finance with a national underwriter and in clinical research with a large pharmaceutical company. Joseph is a Director of Genome BC, Director Emeritus of LifeSciences BC and member of the BIOTECanada Legal Affairs Advisory Board. Joseph is featured as a leading lawyer in numerous publications including The 2014 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2015, The Best Lawyers in Canada 2015, The 2011 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Lexpert’s Special Edition on Energy, November 2014, and LMG Life Sciences: The Definitive Guide to the Leading Life Sciences Firms and Attorneys in North America 2014. Joseph has a BSc (Honours) in pharmacology and human biology from the University of Toronto, a BA in economics (health care) from McMaster University and a LLB from the University of British Columbia. He was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 1997.